As many as 119 children and a team of over 20 officials of Kerala and Jharkhand left last night in two Air Conditioned coaches, jointly arranged by the two state governments, they said.
Transportation of over 500 children from eastern states like Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal without proper documents two weeks ago has snowballed into a big issue, bringing orphanages run by charity trusts under the scanner.
Though it was intially dubbed as a clear case of human trafficking, many of the 500 children were later found to have proper documents and taken to the respective orphanages with the consent of their families.
The Government had ordered a police investigation in the case to ascertain whether it was a case of 'human trafficking' or it just involved precedural lapses.
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Though over 150 children from Jharkhand had been brought to the state last month, some of them had already gone back home with their parents, they said.
Most children have been lodged in state-run juvenile homes of the Child Welfare Society in Palakkad, Malappuram and Thrissur.